Book Review: The Last Full Measure
/A sharp new work seeks to get at the gory reality behind the Hollywood images of warfare.
Read MoreCD of the Week -- Nikolai Medtner
/These rare recordings illuminate the valuable contributions of the Russian composer (and contemporary of Rachmaninov's) Nikolai Medtner
Read MoreBook Review: The Family Corleone
/Veteran writer Ed Falco pens a prequel to "The Godfather," featuring the rise of a crime family - and the story of a vicious strongman named Luca Brasi.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
/Can the Peter Jackson/Lord of the Rings approach work with the Brothers Grimm? Mr. Anderson tells the tale!
Read MoreComics: The Legion Archive, Vol. 13
/The long-awaited next volume in the ongoing Legion of Super-Heroes reprint line is finally here!
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: The Chernobyl Diaries
/Disaster movie or disaster of a movie? Horror movie or horrible movie? Mr. Anderson disambiguates!
Read MoreWe Are Oil
/Just how powerful is Exxon Mobil? Who can they pay off and which governments are they propping up? Steve Coll's new book explores the dark side of power and light.
Read MorePeer Review: Home
/Book reviewers are split on whether Toni Morrison's novel is a further triumph or a falling off. Or did these critics only find what they anticipated? We reviewed the reviews, then we reviewed the book.
Read MoreKeeping Up With the Windsors - The Invisible Woman
/She's occupied the throne of Great Britain and the Commonwealth for 60 years, and in June Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee. Three new biographies try to understand the woman wearing the crown.
Read MoreEndless Forms Most Brutal
/As Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" takes movie-goers back to the world of his "Alien" classics, we take a look at the long and lively history of modern cinema's most famous monsters.
Read MoreThe Dangers of Failing to Lesnerize
/Dubbed the Voltaire of science fiction, Robert Sheckley often denied that there was anything serious in his fabulations. But a new collection belies the claim, displaying inventive satire mixed with wisdom
Read MoreBreaking Up With Blizzard
/His teenage years were blissfully misspent playing Diablo II from Blizzard, and now the company has come out with Diablo III - but can the relationship be saved?
Read MorePeruvian Pan Flutes
/a poem
Read MoreSecond Glance: The Conrad Connection
/This picaresque classic by Colombian novelist Álvaro Mutis doubles as an extended valentine to the author of Heart of Darkness. Robert Latona revisits it.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy - Beethoven In Granite: The Boston Brahmin Aesthetic
/Intertwining through Boston history: the rich, implacable music of Beethoven and the flinty austerity of the Boston Granite style of architecture - trace the connections, as American Aristocracy continues.
Read MoreJune 2012 Issue
/photo by Jeff Proctor
Read MoreSupping with Glaucus: A Tour of Roman Historical Fiction
/Steve Donoghue takes the emperor’s box to thumbs-up or thumbs-down an array of Roman historical novels, as “A Year with the Romans” continues.
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Crowned and Anointed
/Ian Manfred St. Cyr settles in with Maureen Waller’s Sovereign Ladies, a biography of “the six reigning queens of England” and suggests that the author’s headcount may be a little low.
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